A Dowager, a Doris, and a Dynasty

Dowager First Lady Barbara Bush has now changed her tune, in an interview for Fox and Friends' curvy coach crew, about son and Bush Crown Prince, Jeb Bush, exercising his "royal option" on the Republican Party’s presidential nomination in 2016. Maybe the donor class of her family’s party petitioned her to issue (at least a partial) palace retraction.

While she still holds reservations about “only three families” (Bush, Clinton...Kennedy) controlling what could be an emerging American triumvirate cum principate (I think the Kennedys are already out), she cites infamous academic plagiarist, and Sunday morning talk trollop, Doris Kearns Godwin, as her authority: “I say in this country, which is such a great country, there are more than three families. Then I read that ‘The Bully Pulpit’ by Doris Kearns Goodwin,” she said.  It is a book about Teddy Roosevelt and William Howard Taft (early 20th century), but, according to the Friends, Babs pointed out to them that Goodwin wrote, in 1700, there were only three families that ran things. "So maybe it’s OK….”  Neither the Dowager Bush grand dame, nor her Fox Friends, specified which families (in 1700) justified another Bush president in 2016.

USA Today: Ice might be thawing on Barbara Bush's opposition to Jeb in 2016

Washington Post: Barbara Bush relents a bit on 2016: 'Maybe it's ok' if another Bush runs